"Cough, cough. We're shit out of luck."
Flaming debris drifted through the air, and the atmosphere seemed to be on fire.
Even the sturdy Dogtown wall had been blown away in the explosion, losing a layer of its surface. Burning concrete collapsed under gravity and crashed down toward the Hellhound forces below.
Among those troops, hardly anyone could even be seen trying to dodge.
People could be torn apart from the inside out by changes in air pressure. Machines could be briefly paralyzed by powerful electromagnetic interference, then battered into malfunction or shut down on the spot by the shockwave and physical shrapnel. Some even activated their self-destruct programs.
The powerful Hellhounds, who had successfully occupied Pacific State during the Unification War and nearly forced Night City back into New America; the Hellhounds who had occupied Dogtown for years, and whom no side wanted to talk about; the Hellhound garrison in Dogtown, the lawless land of Pacific State that struck fear into people's hearts-
In an instant, they were all paralyzed.
Less than five minutes had passed between the companies jointly activating their information equipment and the bomb being dropped. There might still be survivors inside, but whether the Hellhounds still counted as a "force"-
That was hard to say.
The NCPD's outsourced soldiers stationed outside Dogtown watched the heavily armed, aggressive Hellhounds vanish in an instant. Their fear reached its peak-
Looking around, they were definitely more than three thousand meters from the blast center, yet the two shockwaves had still left everything in this state.
The human body was naturally vulnerable to shockwaves. The more cybernetic a cyborg was, the more clearly its superior ability to recover showed at a time like this:
The Maelstrom's cybernetic humans were the first to come to their senses.
As the most